Chapter 1542: You Know Nothing, Brat
Fulgardt remembered the Apostle Beyrmir indeed. While his WILLS were bonded with Skullius’ body, he had garnered a potent hatred for the former dragon because he (Beyrmir) was almost solely responsible for his loss during that earlier fight.
It was Beyrmir who had traversed outside of Aigas to fetch the soul Festos had hidden away. That had been the crux of Replicus’ strategy for victory, after all: to return the soul into Festos’ body and force it into submission through the Stark Constellation.
Fulgardt hadn’t known much about Beyrmir’s abilities, but now, after being on the receiving end of them multiple times, he understood them.
The Apostle had the ability to create weapons with abilities tied to extremely high temperatures. After flying through the gate of darkness, this ability had been empowered. All the weapons the Apostle could create were even effective against Divines.
However, they shouldn’t have been effective against someone of Fulgardt’s calibre. Fulgardt himself had judged their lacking potency when the fire from that bladeless hilt had struck against him, but when the scissors had come, he had figured out exactly how Skullius intended to harm him with such trivial attacks.
Fundamental Barter. Of course it was!
The Nullmancer was using Fundamental Barter on each weapon he received to empower it exponentially five-fold. Fulgardt judged that Skullius used the same restrictions on each of them: that he (Fulgardt) was the only target for the effects, and that the weapon could only be used once, which was why Skullius didn’t use a single weapon multiple times.
The powers of each weapon were significantly improved, which was a great trade-off. Some of them even caused absurd, unreasonable phenomena that weren’t at all natural in worlds like Aigas. They were lethal indeed.
Crafty and inventive as this move by Skullius was, though, Fulgardt didn’t find it especially impressive. If anything, it made him wonder...